conjugate

Verb

conjugate (third-person singular simple present conjugates, present participle conjugating, simple past and past participle conjugated)

1. (transitive) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
   • In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
2. To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
3. (rare) To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
   • The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 55
4. To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.

Noun

UK/ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/US/ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/

conjugate (plural conjugates)

1. Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
2. A complex conjugate.
3. More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
4. (field theory) Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
5. A type of pelvic measurement.
6. An explementary angle.
7. A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
   • 17th c, John Bramhall,
     We have learned in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.
8. A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together

Adjective

UK/ˈkɒn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/US/ˈkɑn.d͡ʒə.ɡət/

conjugate (not comparable)

1. United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
   • Some of the most widely-applied Gresley features will doubtless long remain a subject of controversy among locomotive engineers, and in particular his patent conjugate valve-motion for 3-cylinder engines, whereby the piston-valve of the middle cylinder derives its motion from the two outside...1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 290

   Synonyms:

   paired

   Antonyms:

   dysconjugate

2. In single pairs; coupled.
3. Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
4. Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
5. Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.